[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:53 PM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>2009/4/6 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> > Have you ever *used* plain distutils for a significant project?  I invented
> > the source control feature in setuptools because I was constantly ending up
> > with files missing from my sdists, due to forgetting to add some sort of
> > glob pattern to MANIFEST.in.  It's not going to be any better by putting
> > those globs into setup.py.
>
>Well, I used setuptools unfortunately. The day I switched from svn to
>mercurial, people started
>to complain because my distribution had missing files.
>
>So I eventually switch to use MANIFEST.in, because package_data
>features were incomplete.
>
>So, I know exactly on my side why I don't want to be tighted to a VCS plugin.

Are you saying the mercurial plugin doesn't work?  Did you contact the author?